{"id":35766,"date":"2013-01-14T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T10:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=35766"},"modified":"2013-01-14T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T10:22:46","slug":"crap-the-content-marketing-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=35766","title":{"rendered":"Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/15931787?rel=0\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dougkessler\/crap-the-content-marketing-deluge\" title=\"Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge.\" target=\"_blank\">Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge.<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dougkessler\" target=\"_blank\">Velocity Partners<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>Interesting thoughts by Velocity Partners <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge. from Velocity Partners Interesting thoughts by Velocity Partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":146762,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=146762","url_meta":{"origin":35766,"position":0},"title":"You Brief the Madness\u2014Then Fire the Messenger?","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"16\/05\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Jaguar\u2019s failed rebrand reveals more than bad creative. 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